Court Cases

Under the First Amendment, the “true threats” doctrine holds that allegedly threatening speech cannot be punished unless the government can prove that the speaker meant to communicate a serious expression of an intent to commit an act of unlawful violence to a particular individual.

The public walkway and parkland along the Detroit River in Detroit is managed by a private non-profit called the Detroit RiverFront Conservancy. However, until recently, the Conservancy was treating the land as private property.

In a disturbing new trend that has been sweeping the country, some jails are prohibiting inmates from sending or receiving any mail unless it is written on one side of a small postcard.

In Oct. 2016 we joined the National Disability Rights Network, the Arc Michigan and the Arc of the United States in filing a friend-of-the-court brief in the Michigan Supreme Court in a case the involves the termination of parental rights where the parent has a cognitive or developmental disability.